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The '''Intercollegiate Rocketry Engineering Competition (IREC)''' is hosted annually in June by the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association (ESRA) at Spaceport America in New Mexico. The competition requirements are to build a rocket with solid, hybrid, or liquid propulsion capable of delivering an 8.8 pound payload to either 10,000 or 30,000 feet. The most recent team, [[IREC 2018]], was the second SSI team to participate in the competition, and won second place in the 30k commercial off-the-shelf motor category.
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The '''Intercollegiate Rocketry Engineering Competition (IREC)''' is hosted annually in June by the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association (ESRA) at Spaceport America in New Mexico. The competition requirements are to build a rocket with solid, hybrid, or liquid propulsion capable of delivering an 8.8 pound payload to either 10,000 or 30,000 feet. SSI has competed in the competition three times, with [[IREC 2017]], [[IREC 2018]], and [[Olympus 2019]] competed in the 30,000 foot Comercial Off the Shelf category.  This year, [[Olympus 2020]] is hoping to launch SSI's first liquid motor in the 30,000 foot Liquid/Hybrid Category.
  
 
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* Flight performance and closeness to the altitude target
 
* Flight performance and closeness to the altitude target
 
* Payload design and originality
 
* Payload design and originality
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[[Category:Rockets]]

Latest revision as of 09:12, 13 January 2020

The Intercollegiate Rocketry Engineering Competition (IREC) is hosted annually in June by the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association (ESRA) at Spaceport America in New Mexico. The competition requirements are to build a rocket with solid, hybrid, or liquid propulsion capable of delivering an 8.8 pound payload to either 10,000 or 30,000 feet. SSI has competed in the competition three times, with IREC 2017, IREC 2018, and Olympus 2019 competed in the 30,000 foot Comercial Off the Shelf category. This year, Olympus 2020 is hoping to launch SSI's first liquid motor in the 30,000 foot Liquid/Hybrid Category.

Overview

The competition is split into six different categories across the two altitude targets and three motor types: commercial off-the-shelf solid motors (COTS), student researched and developed solid motors (SRAD), and student researched and developed hybrid or liquid motors (hybrid/liquid). Teams are judged on their performance in a number of categories:

  • Poster and podium presentations at a conference day
  • Technical report on the project
  • Quality and construction of the rocket
  • Quantity of student researched and developed components
  • Flight performance and closeness to the altitude target
  • Payload design and originality